Actions to set aside or contest wills, for the involuntary appointment of guardians and conservators, and for the establishment of contested claims shall be triable in probate as law actions, and all other matters triable in probate shall be tried by the probate court as a proceeding in equity.
Iowa Code § 633.33
Nature of proceedings in probate
Known as the Iowa Probate Code
The act spans §§ 633–633 (527 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Florence Whalen, Michael Whalen (2013)
Most recently applied in In the Matter of the Guardianship of Timothy Monkhouse (May 2018)
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.33]
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.